{"product_id":"any-moonwalker-can-tell-you-new-and-selected-poems-9781622882564","title":"Any Moonwalker Can Tell You: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e Selected from six collections and over two decades of poems beginning with the promise of \u003ci\u003eNightwalking \u003c\/i\u003eand carrying through to the award-winning \u003ci\u003eBone Music\u003c\/i\u003e, Joel Peckham's \u003ci\u003eAny Moonwalker Can Tell You \u003c\/i\u003edraws from the best of a maximalist, gritty body of work that manages to balance page and stage. Intense and accessible, these poems channel the cosmic, longlined, and loose-limbed expansiveness of Whitman and the sonic, image-driven experimentation of Kinnell. Though this is a Selected Poems, there is thematic unity--a focus on how the personal and the collective intersect, how acts of empathy can access the ecstatic, and how music has the capacity to transform despair into hope. Beginning with the poet walking at night through a midwestern town and ending among the stars in a sequence of new poems that completes the collection, there is an upward and outward trajectory. Of Peckham's collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Heat of What Comes, \u003c\/i\u003ecomposed in the aftermath of an accident that took lives of his wife, Susan, and his oldest son, Cyrus, Jack Ridl once wrote that \"Joel Peckham has written a survival guide to America\" in which the reader is \"hurled through the culture's plurality of attacks on the heart. His grief is searing. He leads us through.\" Taken as a whole, this New and Selected Poems is a testament to the poet's recognition that survival is not enough, we must find a way to keep living, keep making music even after the record has stopped spinning: \"the song having ended but not the hurried beating of the heart.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e JOEL PECKHAM, JR. is an Assistant Professor of Regional Literature and Creative Writing. A scholar of American Literature and a creative writer as well as a former Fulbright Scholar, his reviews, essays, scholarly articles, and poetry have been published in numerous journals, including \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe North American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRattle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRiver Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTexas Studies in Literature and Language\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Sun. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stephen F. Austin University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50501006491922,"sku":"9781622882564","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8830c3d7-6ac4-4023-abd6-61d76eb0a01f.jpg?v=1730761100","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/any-moonwalker-can-tell-you-new-and-selected-poems-9781622882564","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}